Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ruys, Permanent Chief of the Ministry of Commerce. His schedule is primarily designed to win farmer votes at the spring election. It sharply reduces the duties on farm tractors, doubles or triples those on many foodstuffs, and abolishes the duty on U. S. wheat seed, now popular in France. Sugar, from the U. S., which France has not heretofore imported, should flow in if the bill becomes law, for it would reduce the duty on sugar from 290 francs per 100 kilos to 100 francs...
From a chamber of commerce standpoint no convention sugar plum is sweeter than the League of Nations. It never quite adjourns. The Permanent Secretariat teems constantly with women & young women directed by a few males. Several times a year there are big convention weeks when the Council meets, or the Assembly, or both. Moreover the League draws smart and moneyed spectators to neighboring hotels. For seven years the League plum has meant rich lickings to the Swiss city of Geneva. Suddenly, last week, President Edmund Schulthess of Switzerland learned with hopping indignation that the Austrian Government is now definitely bidding...
...other side of the sugar plum is that Austria needs desperately some such bolstering of her commerce as the perpetual League convention would provide. The factories and marts of Vienna once supplied the whole Austro-Hungarian Empire, and with that shorn away Vienna is choked with what she can produce but cannot sell...
Cuba Cane Sugar Corp. (which figured the price of cane sugar in 1927 to be $0.02493 a Ib.)-$5,275,599-Previous year...
...cloudless night sky, flower-garlanded brown bodies lure U. S. tourists. But those mountainous islands are one with the U. S. in creating wealth from soil and industry. In the capital city, Honolulu, is a Stock and Bond Exchange where the securities of the Philippine Archipeligo's sugar plantations, public utilities, railways and pineapple canners are bought and sold, and where, significantly, are listed the foreign stocks and bonds of Sumatran and Philippine companies financed and owned by the prosperous Hawaiians...